In the early 19th century all women were discriminated. Woman had very few rights and men had a lot more freedom. It wasn’t just one type of race it was all women. Women didn’t have the same social and economic rights. When women got married they needed to drop out of school and in case of divorce, the men received custody of the children. Along with that, most women who got married weren’t allowed to work. Poor women who worked earned less money then men for the same amount of hours. Women didn’t have a say in anything and women didn’t have the right to vote.
After a while, women started to get very sick of this and knew they should take a stand. Women were denied so many rights that they all deserved. They felt they should have the same amount of justice as anybody else. Women took a stand! They protested and they went on strike. Many women decided to fight for the right to vote, the women who did this were called suffragettes. The right to vote is called suffrage. Women needed men in Congress to change the U.S Constitution. The movement went to the Congress and the Congress said that each state had to make it owns judgment. After that it went to the Supreme Court and President Harding signed for it.
Some Women who took a big part in these movements were Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman and Mary Church. Alice Paul organized a parade in
Washington D.C. Many women marched but men, yelled at them and said very insulting and hurtful comments. The police watched but didn’t do anything about it. During this, Alice Paul and many other women got arrested but they wouldn’t go down without a fight. Many women fought for the end of slavery after the Civil War. After the 15th amendment was passed it gave African Americans the right to vote but not women. In 1848, 300 suffragettes met in
Seneca Falls, New York there, they wrote a document called the Declaration of Sentiments. In this document it quotes “all men and woman are created equal.” After the 19th Amendment was passed it gave ALL women the right to vote.
Women never went down without a fight. They always did the best they could no matter what it took. At the end of all this work and fighting they went through, women finally got freedom in he 20th centaury. These women and the accomplishments they made are reasons why most woman have their freedom today. These women will always be remembered in history not only for standing up for who they are but, for doing the heroic things they did.
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